Written by Robert Knight
Before 1954, pastors, priests and rabbis could openly endorse political parties or candidates.
Then came the Johnson Amendment, named for Lyndon Baines Johnson, then an U.S. Senator from Texas who tweaked the IRS code. Suddenly, tax-exempt nonprofits were barred from “participating or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.” The “opposition to” phrase was added in 1986.
A ruthless political strategist before and during his presidency, Johnson engineered this coup after two Texas nonprofit groups had supported his Senate primary opponent.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Donald Trump, Drag Queen Story Hour, George Barna, James Dobson, Johnson Amendment, Kamala Harris, Lyndon Baines Johnson, McCulloch v. Maryland, Planned Parenthood, Rev. Franklin Graham, Rev. Jerry Falwell, Ronald Reagan, tax-exempt Churches, William Wilberforce
Political, Religious Liberty | David E. Smith |
July 15, 2025 5:00 AM |
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Written by Daniel Horowitz
Elect strong conservative leaders in your state — or watch it go the way of New York City. That’s the unmistakable warning conservatives should take from New York voters nominating a Hamas sympathizer and self-proclaimed socialist for mayor.
How could this happen just one generation after 9/11? How does the city that suffered most from jihadist terrorism now embrace a foreign-born Islamist who wants to “globalize the intifada”?
When Donald Trump calls for more farm labor from the third world — so long as the workers aren’t ‘murderers’ — he misses the deeper issue.… Continue Reading
Tags: Census Bureau, Center for Immigration Studies, Daniel Horowitz, Donald Trump, Hamas, illegal immigration, Intifada, Iowa State University, JD Vance, Mitt Romney, New York City, Zohran Mamdani
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith |
July 2, 2025 7:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities were not the only things going up in smoke last week, courtesy of American bombers sent by President Trump.
The Democratic Party’s recent attempts to appear worthy of national leadership also were blown to smithereens. Many prominent party figures have foolishly assailed the successful raid.
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez actually tried to launch an impeachment inquiry after Mr. Trump did the world a favor and declawed one of the world’s most dangerous regimes.… Continue Reading
Written by Dana Pico
Have you noticed? The ‘heroes’ of the American left, like Michael Brown, George Floyd, Freddie Gray, and Trayvon Martin were all bad guys? Mr Floyd was a convicted felon and drug addict, caught in the act of passing counterfeit money, Mr Brown had just roughed up a shopkeeper half his size, and then attempted to assault a police officer. Mr Martin had assaulted George Zimmerman. Mr Gray had a criminal record with 18 prior arrests, on drug charges, three separate assault charges, and minor crimes and had spent time in jail.… Continue Reading
Tags: Donald Trump, Freddie Gray, George Floyd, George Zimmerman, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Trayvon Martin, Will Bunch
Federal Issues, Immigration, Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith |
June 30, 2025 4:00 AM |
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Written by Wayne Allyn Root
Say it out loud. Say it with pride. Repeat after me…
The 2020 election was stolen.
I’ve known this for five years. You’ve known this for five years. I’ve said all along — the key to President Donald Trump‘s second term is PROVING it. That is what just happened. The evidence has been found. What happens next will change everything.
FBI Director Kash Patel has forwarded documents hidden by the FBI on a Chinese plot to steal the 2020 election by mass producing fake voter IDs to allow fraudulent mail-in voting by illegal aliens — including Chinese nationals in the U.S.… Continue Reading
Tags: CCP, Censorship Industrial Complex, China, COVID pandemic, Donald Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci, George Soros, Joe Biden, Kash Patel, Stacey Abrams, Wayne Allyn Root
Federal Issues, Voter Integrity | David E. Smith |
June 26, 2025 6:00 AM |
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Written by Dr. Everett Piper
If you watched the recent “No Kings” riots with a lingering sense of deja vu, together with a haunting feeling that the “fox is in the henhouse,” you had good reason. This chaos is not without precedent, and it is far from the grassroots movement it is portrayed to be. First, let’s deal with the deja vu.
Because most of our public schools have long since abandoned teaching anything remotely akin to an accurate version of world history, most people today are unaware that the anarchy we are witnessing in the streets of Philadelphia and Portland is not without precedent.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexandra Romanov, Berger Action Fund, Bolshevik Revolution, Chinese Xinhai Revolution, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, French Revolution, George Soros, Great Leap Forward, Hansjorg Wyss, Josef Stalin, Louis XVI, Mao Zedong, Nicholas Romanov, No Kings, Open Society, Vladimir Lenin
Exclude From Homepage, Marriage, Family & Culture, Political | David E. Smith |
June 25, 2025 6:00 AM |
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Written by Tim Graham
The “No Kings” rally against President Donald Trump on June 14 featured several angry speeches from Democrats. Mediaite had this story: “Eric Swalwell ‘Trump Is America’s Hitler’ Remark at Rally Sparks Viral Outrage.” That gaseous D.C. speech was easily ignored by PolitiFact and those “independent fact-checkers.”
U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) says this repeatedly, and Mediaite added it’s a regular line from U.S. Representative James Clyburn (D-SC). Fox News host Neil Cavuto offered some mild pushback: “So you don’t think that’s a little hyperbolic?”… Continue Reading
Tags: Adolph Hitler, Donald Trump, Eric Swalwell, Gavin Newsom, Gestapo, James Clyburn, Louis Jacobson, Madison Czopek, Melissa Hortman, Nazi, Neil Cavuto, NewsBusters, PolitiFact, Tim Walz
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
June 20, 2025 5:00 AM |
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Written by Lt. Col Allen West
Isaiah 1:18 (KJV), “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord…”
I remember the murder of Dutch film director Theo van Gogh in November 2004. He had completed a film titled “Submission: Part 1,” which criticized the treatment of women in Islam. Van Gogh was shot and had his throat slit by Mohammed Bouyeri who resented the film’s message. There was even a note left on van Gogh threatening Mohammed Bouyeri and others left on van Gogh’s body.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Hussein Obama, death to America, Donald Trump, Elias Rodriguez, Elon Musk, Hamas, Intifada, Islam, Jihad, Mohamed Soliman, Mohammed Bouyeri, October 7th Terror Attacks, Palestine, Rolling Thunder, Sarah Milgrim, Tesla, Theo van Gogh, Yaron Lischinsky
Islam & Sharia | David E. Smith |
June 7, 2025 8:00 AM |
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Written by Tim Graham
The first excerpts of the Jake Tapper-Alex Thompson book on denying former President Joe Biden’s obvious mental decline have been posted, and you can already sense Democrats don’t want to deal with what they have done.
The book’s title is “Original Sin.” Why the biblical title? The authors write:
“The original sin of Election 2024 was Biden’s decision to run for re-election — followed by aggressive efforts to hide his cognitive diminishment.”
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Tags: 2024 Election, ABC, Alex Thompson, Axios, Barack Obama, CBS, CNN, Dean Phillips, Donald Trump, Dylan Byers, George Clooney, Hunter Biden, Jake Tapper, Jill Biden, Joe Biden, NPR, Original Sin, PBS, PBS News Hour, The New Yorker
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
May 16, 2025 9:00 AM |
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Written by David E. Smith
Illinois lawmakers are actively shaping the state’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget as the May 31st legislative deadline approaches. Governor JB Pritzker has proposed a budget of $55.45 billion – an increase of $2.35 billion over last year, but final numbers are still under negotiation.
On May 13, 2025, Republican members of the Illinois House of Representatives held a press conference, urging substantial budget reductions. They claimed over $1 billion in wasteful spending, fraud, and abuse could be eliminated to save citizens from new or increased tax proposals.… Continue Reading
Tags: Blaine Wilhour, Brad Halbrook, Chris Miller, Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Illinois Freedom Caucus, Illinois Policy Institute, Illinois State Budget, JB Pritzker, Tax Foundation's 2025 State Tax Competitiveness Index
Illinois Politics | David E. Smith |
May 14, 2025 7:00 AM |
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